Oct 16, 2017 | Interviews
I was interviewed by Nell Larson and Chris Cherniak on Park City, UT’s KPCW This Green Earth radio program about our Colorado River rights of nature lawsuit. My part starts at minute 24: http://kpcw.org/post/green-earth-october-3-2017
Sep 26, 2017 | Analysis, Essays
Note: The first Rights of Nature lawsuit in the US was filed on September 25, 2017, in Denver, Colorado. The full text of the complaint can be found here. On Tuesday, September 26, the Colorado River will sue the State of Colorado in a first-in-the-nation lawsuit...
Sep 26, 2017 | Essays, New Park City Witness
Author’s Note: A member of Park City’s city government recently asked me why I write about Park City when Park City is doing so much for the environment, compared to other communities. Her question, essentially, was: Why do you criticize Park City? I hope my respect...
Sep 12, 2017 | Essays, New Park City Witness, Park City
Before murdering millions during the Holocaust, the Nazis referred to Jews as rats. After murdering 17 people and lobotomizing some of his victims in an attempt to preserve them, alive but in a catatonic state, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer explained, “…I tried to...
Sep 12, 2017 | Essays, New Park City Witness, Park City
In Park City, the task is clear: Stop climate change, or the snow stops. Snowpack is the region’s freshwater supply and water is life. So, stop climate change or the community will lose life. This is not news to most Parkites. And, thankfully, many Parkites have...
Jun 27, 2017 | Interviews, Pinyon-Juniper Forests
I was interviewed by Jennifer Murnan about Pinyon-Juniper Forests for KGNU, Boulder’s Morning Magazine Program. The interview originally aired on Tuesday, June 27, 2017.
Jun 10, 2017 | Essays, Pinyon-Juniper Forests
A windmill blade knocks the head off a Cooper’s hawk interrupting the late afternoon peace in Spring Valley. The blade tosses the hawk’s body onto yellow gravel the power company spread, over living soil, in circles around their windmills. The ever-present Great Basin...
May 8, 2017 | Analysis, Essays
In my essay, “Park City is Damned: A Case Study in Civilization,” I described the vicious cycle Park City, Utah is caught in and explained how the city cannot exist for much longer. There are far more humans in Park City than the land can support, so the necessities...